When the new food labels roll out in a year or two, a 20 ounce Pepsi will have to say it contains 130% of your daily value of added sugar. Yogurts will have to call out their added sugar, so we can’t kid ourselves that it all comes from fruit. Food companies fought the change, but they lost.

A myriad of low-carb products are marketed as having “zero net carbs”, but a closer look at the nutrition label reveals most of the “cancelled” carbs to be from dietary fiber or sugar alcohols. What does this wizardry mean for calorie and carbohydrate counters? Not as much as the marketing would have you believe.

When you have people over for a party, it's nice to have labels next to dishes so they don't have to ask you about the food. If you're in a pinch, binder clips are a neat and convenient solution for that. And you can grab some wrapping paper to make them look pretty too.

Whole wheat, multigrain, 12-grain, "Made with whole grains"—there are many labels you can put on bread to make it sound healthy. What really counts when it comes to buying better bread? Fewer ingredients, key labels, and basic weight math.